Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08
Cor~respopdenee of the Yorkville Enquirer.
NOTES OF TRAVEL.

NEW YORK, June LATTER some days
of thorough enjoyment in Washington, l
concluded to run up and see how they
did things in Philadelphia-''the city of
brotherly love"-the Quaker city. The
run from Washington to Baltimore was
made without a stop. I had nothing else
to do, and was curious to know how last
We were running, so I timed it from one
mile post to another and found that we
were making q mile a minute most Of
the way, and some of the miles were made
in SO seconds, and they did not seem to be
hurrying themselves much either.
The country on either side OF the ROAD
between Washington and Baltimore is
level and pleasant looking, and chiefly
given up to truck-farming-that is, the
raising of vegetables for the cities. For
example, it was not uncommon to see a
field of twenty or thirty acres sown entire,
ly with E%nglish-peas, and so throughout
the entire list of vegetables: 1t was a re-
lief to get into a country where no cotton
stalks could be seen.
Soon we began to draw near to Balti-
more: and there before US for miles and
miles, stretched away In the distance hous-
es and chimneys, spires, streets, men,
horses and every vehicle that runs on
wheels, and every sound that comes up
from a great city. But the stop is only TOR
a moment and then we rush away across the
fields and through the towns to Philadel-
phia. l think there was scarcely a vacant
lot in the limits of either Baltimore or
Philadelphia, in sight of our train, in
which there were not persons engaged in
baseball. Verify it is a national craze.
NV visit to Philadelphia was in connec-
ton with the meeting of the General AS
sembly ofthe United Presbyterian Church.
But as this is not a matter of any interest
to your readers, l will not speak of it, only
T might say that I was treated like a
prince, and that much interest and curios-
itv was shown because / was from the
South" and that I was accorded a most
courteous hearing by the Assembly.
I found people everywhere full OF inter-
est about the South and anxious to know
how we are progressing. But by-the-Way,
such occurrences as the refusal OF the TWO
military companies from Mississippi to
march in the same procession with the
colored companies in the military review
in Washington last week, has created a
most unfavorable feeling here. The n
yersaI sentiment here condemns it. The
people in the North do not understand the
real state of things in the South any more
than the people of the South understand
the real state of matters in the North. II
these companies had not made up their
minds to compete with any and everybody
that might come, they ought to have staid
at home. Sentiments of that kind will
not be tolerated here for a moment. 1t is
as we'll for US to understand these things
now. whether we like them or not. They
are facts and I give them without COM
ment.
By-the-way, my host in this city (Phila-
delphia) related to me the following story:
During the war a lieutenant in the Fed
eral army was scouting through the coun-
try in Virginia, and came to farm house:
AS he went up the steps an old colored
mauma came out and said, "you had better
leave here quick-you had better leave
here quick" AS he reached the door q
young lady opened it and thrusta revolver
in his face, but it snapped. He wrested
it out of her hands. Then she reached
around and seized the slop bucket, sitting
by, and emptied its contents over him.
Said he 81 don't want any more of this
foolishness," and placed her under guard.
After the wal he returned to Philadelphia
and went into the real estate business.
Bye and bye q party up north applied to
him to purchase a Virginia farm. He re-
had the encounter with the young lady
was a good one, and he went down there
to see if he could buy it. Yes, the owner
wanted to sell. During the negotiations
he frequently met the young lady who
had given him such a rough reception
years before; and he liked her-in fact the
liking was mutual. Well, to cut a long
story short, it was the old story-"they
fell in love, were married, and are now
living happily in this CITY," J.C. G.